Comment: Re:Sounds ugly (Score 1) 208
Is this so bad as it sounds?
Technical: Yes.
Real-world-home-server: No.
Talk about choices...
Comment: Re:Uh, yeah! (Score 1) 426
i won't argue - i never stated that they are allowed to do ANYthing. But still they are seeking whays to maximize profit - as long as this doesn't collide with local laws. This is a more specific case of what i wrote not a falsification.
I'm almost too sure that facebook has a set of lawyers who evaluated if the ToS do collide with any laws in the US - and obviously they came to the conclusion that they are allowed to do what they are doing.
I'm almost too sure that facebook has a set of lawyers who evaluated if the ToS do collide with any laws in the US - and obviously they came to the conclusion that they are allowed to do what they are doing.
Comment: Re:Uh, yeah! (Score 1) 426
And exactly where does this rant contradict my statement?
Comment: Re:Naive thinking... (Score 1) 426
Really? I don't think so - i don't know the table-structure of facebook but i worked with a few CRMs. And all of them stored everything forever. "Deleted"-tags were applied to every comment, picture, etc - but nothing got really purged. In the database structure everything was still available.
Comment: Re:Uh, yeah! (Score 2, Insightful) 426
Yeah - and if you paint your car green it'll get recepted as a tree. Your logic's somehow screwed up.
Seriously - what i wanted to say is this: You're using a free service which is provied by a commercial company. You really don't have to be surprised if they somehow seek ways to be profitable.
Seriously - what i wanted to say is this: You're using a free service which is provied by a commercial company. You really don't have to be surprised if they somehow seek ways to be profitable.
Comment: Re:Naive thinking... (Score 1) 426
And sure as hell - if you deleted your account it wouldn't have been deleted anyway. It just wears a "deleted"-flag so it isn't publicly displayed any more.
Comment: Uh, yeah! (Score 4, Informative) 426
There's an ancient proverb describing the evolution of those ToS:
You get what you paid for.
Comment: Re:FOXP2 (Score 2, Informative) 229
Nah.
FOXP2 is responsible for "language development" with songbirds and other animals(*), too. If your logic would be correct, birds would talk like humans - which they obviously don't. (*)
FOXP2 is responsible for "language development" with songbirds and other animals(*), too. If your logic would be correct, birds would talk like humans - which they obviously don't. (*)
The FOXP2 protein sequence is highly conserved. Similar FOXP2 proteins can be found in songbirds, fish, and reptiles such as alligators.
see here
Comment: Re:It justifies (Score 1) 307
Illegal copying is like using drugs.
i really can't see why this is modded funny.
Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 772
Posted
by
timothy
from the but-most-folks-call-me-jim dept.
from the but-most-folks-call-me-jim dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Mike Nash came forward today in a blog post on the Windows Vista Blog and revealed the official name for Windows Code Name '7' as simply 'Windows 7.' The reasoning, by Mr. Nash, is that Windows 7 is 'the seventh release of Windows.' As much wonderful sense as this makes on first glance, it seems as if Microsoft's marketing teams pulled this number out of thin air: the Windows 7 kernel is version 6.1, and there's no way Windows 7 adds up as the seventh release of Windows anyway."